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What's the Opposite of Ambition?
Fewer zero-emission vehicles will be required on California roads by 2014 |
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27 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:01 PM on 27 Mar 2008 California's Air Resources Board has voted to reduce the number of zero-emissions vehicles required to be sold in the state by 2014 from 25,000 to 7,500. It's a hefty reduction, though less dramatic than the recommendation by CARB staff that the requirement be cut to 2,500 vehicles. Not-quite-zero-but-still-relatively-less-emissions vehicles, like plug-in h ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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From 60 to Zero
California board to vote on requiring fewer zero-emission vehicles |
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26 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:54 AM on 26 Mar 2008 On Thursday, the California Air Resources Board will vote on whether to require fewer zero-emissions vehicles on the state's roads in coming years. As it stands now, automakers must sell 25,000 zero-emission vehicles by 2014 and an additional 50,000 by 2017. Under the proposed changes, the numbers would drop to 2,500 by 2014 and 25,000 by 2017, with the difference made up by selli ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Pointed Defiance
Bill introduced in House to overturn EPA's California decision |
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07 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:43 AM on 07 Mar 2008 A bill introduced Thursday in the House of Representatives would grant California the right to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, and pave the way for 12 other states to do the same. The U.S. EPA's decision to keep California from regulating car GHG emissions "defied the science, defied the states, and defied common sense," said bill cosponsor Peter Welch (D-V ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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The League of Extraordinary Conditions
EPA releases unconvincing justification for denying California waiver |
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29 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:54 AM on 29 Feb 2008 For the long wait that preceded it, the U.S. EPA's just-released justification for disallowing California to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions is rather anticlimactic. The 48-page document argues that California lacks the "compelling and extraordinary conditions" required for special regulatory permission, because the rest of the nation ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Full of Mitt
Romney flip-flops, does not support California CO2 waiver |
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05 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:39 AM on 05 Feb 2008 Remember how Mitt Romney joined with the other GOP presidential candidates in appearing to support California in its quest to gain a waiver from the U.S. EPA to allow it to regulate vehicle CO2 emissions? How Romney said, and we quote, "I side with states being able to make their own decisions, even if I don't always agree with the decisions they make"? Well, the Mittster, a fervent ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Mitt Romney, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Fee Enterprise
California considers |
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29 Jan 2008 |
News |
| "feebate" bill to make polluting cars more expensive Posted at 7:16 AM on 29 Jan 2008 California is pursuing new ideas to reduce vehicle emissions in the state after the U.S. EPA denied the state a waiver it needed to implement its vehicle greenhouse-gas emission standards. California lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill this week that would set up a "feebate" system for new car purchases. Excessively polluting vehicles would become mo ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, news (all these topics) |
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As States Would Have It
Multiple states will sue over EPA decision to not let California regulate vehicle emissions |
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21 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 5:10 PM on 21 Dec 2007 Riled up about the U.S. EPA's decision not to allow California to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions, Golden State Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared he will sue the agency "within the next three weeks." At least eight other states that would have adopted the stricter emissions standards had the EPA allowed it have said they'v ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics) |
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EPA: Nay
U.S. EPA won't let California enact vehicle greenhouse-gas limits |
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19 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:54 PM on 19 Dec 2007 The U.S. EPA has denied California the waiver it needed to enact a state law requiring a 30 percent reduction in vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016. Said EPA chief Stephen Johnson, "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution -- not a confusing patchwork of state rules -- to reduce America's climate footprint from vehicles." But that decision w ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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It's a Christmas Miracle!
Judge tosses out Big Auto's suit against California |
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12 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:02 PM on 12 Dec 2007 Automakers must have been bad this year, because Santa has given them a big holiday disappointment. And by Santa we mean U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii, who today declared that California has the authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, and tossed out automakers' lawsuit against the state. Automakers had sued in 2004 when California passed a law requiring vehicl ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news (all these topics) |
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Nuisance Review
Judge tosses out lawsuit brought by California against automakers |
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18 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:21 AM on 18 Sep 2007 Automakers gained an edge yesterday in the Big Auto vs. California debate, as a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit against the world's six largest auto companies brought by California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Brown had claimed that because of the harmful environmental effects of vehicles' greenhouse-gas emissions, the Big Six were running afoul of California's public nuisance ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Boxer Sticks It to Johnson
Senate hearing probes EPA chief's delay on tailpipe decision |
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27 Jul 2007 |
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| Boxer Sticks It to Johnson Senate hearing probes EPA chief's delay on tailpipe decision Can U.S. states enact stricter tailpipe regulations than the feds? That question has been hovering in the air since California requested a waiver from the U.S. EPA in late 2005. Why no answer yet? At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing yesterda ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, California, cars, climate, Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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